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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06256-4
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- NIH [DE024269]
- Stanford Child Health Research Institute
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL & CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH [K08DE024269] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [R37AG023806, P01AG036695] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Royal jelly is the queen-maker for the honey bee Apis mellifera, and has cross-species effects on longevity, fertility, and regeneration in mammals. Despite this knowledge, how royal jelly or its components exert their myriad effects has remained poorly understood. Using mouse embryonic stem cells as a platform, here we report that through its major protein component Royalactin, royal jelly can maintain pluripotency by activating a ground-state pluripotency-like gene network. We further identify Regina, a mammalian structural analog of Royalactin that also induces a naive-like state in mouse embryonic stem cells. This reveals an important innate program for stem cell self-renewal with broad implications in understanding the molecular regulation of stem cell fate across species.
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